St Ninians Isle Description of stone

Event ID 1015202

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

St Ninian’s Isle 13, Shetland, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.41m, W 0.37m, D 0.07m

Stone type: steatite

Place of discovery: HU 3685 2090

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 67130)

Evidence for discovery: found during the excavation, possibly in 1956, lying face up in the south-west part of the nave of the medieval church.

Present condition: broken.

Description

This fragment is plain apart from a pecked line creating a flatband moulded frame. It may be the base of a recumbent slab like no 12.

Date: ninth or tenth century.

References: Thomas 1973, no 12; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 64.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016.